Country wedding, 1924 - a picture from the past

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont is most famous for his autochromes of the battlefields of France during the first world war. This gentle scene of post-war rural life is a far cry from the horrors of that he witnessed on the Western Front

Musicians lead a marriage procession is led through a village in Berry, central France in 1924Illustration: Photograph: Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/ National Geographic Society/Corbis